Paul Ryan Gets Giddy Over Taking Healthcare Away From 20 Million Americans

Yes, we can repeal Obamacare! So says Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), doubling down on the Republican Party’s long six years of fail when it comes to President Obama’s signature healthcare law.

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“We put a bill on the President’s desk to repeal Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood,” Speaker Ryan announced proudly.

So that’s taking healthcare away from millions with no plan to replace it. Also, there is no reason to defund Planned Parenthood; they were cleared of all charges surrounding the deceptively edited videos Republicans continue to base their sham investigations on.

“Today we will have a vote to override the President’s veto of this bill. We are taking this all of the way to the end of the process,” Ryan vowed stoically.

“We are taking this all the way to the end of the process under our Constitution,” Ryan told reporters. One can almost picture him waving his copy of Atlas Shrugged for emphasis. “Regardless of the outcome today, this fight will not end here! We have now forged a path — that is a clear path — to repealing Obamacare without 60 votes in the Senate.”

To what end? Ryan needs 2/3 votes in the House to override the President’s veto. If by some miracle he managed that, then it would have to go to the Senate where it faces little chance of getting enough votes. But that isn’t going to stop Republicans. Ryan is saying they will use the reconciliation process to stop Obamacare – their usual method of facing policy defeats by simply closing the purse strings.

So in other words, look at the new boss he’s just like the old boss – wasting your money on useless show votes, getting nothing done, and playing to hardcore extremist Republicans who refuse to acknowledge the facts about Obamacare and Planned Parenthood.

Ryan and the Republican Party are also using this as a campaign issue, “So what we are proving today is if we have a Republican president next year, we will repeal Obamacare. And we will replace Obamacare.”

The thing is lots of people like affordable heath insurance. Can Ryan see beyond the myopic lens of the gerrymandered House districts?

Speaking to this issue, Ryan claimed it was “important that we become more than just an opposition party.” Ryan said that Republican Party will become a “proposition” party.

No word on just when these propositions will be forthcoming, as have been waiting for a Republican replacement for Obamacare, going on six years.

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